* AT_REPLACE flag for linkat()
@ 2019-04-08 7:18 Matthijs van Duin
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From: Matthijs van Duin @ 2019-04-08 7:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Omar Sandoval, Al Viro; +Cc: linux-fsdevel
In the mailing list archives I found the patch series "fs: add
AT_REPLACE flag for linkat()" to allow atomically replacing a file with
a hardlink to an existing file, which can be combined with O_TMPFILE to
atomically replace files with new content without having to use named
temporary files (and risk leaving them behind on power loss).
I would really love to have this functionality, but it seems activity
just stopped around May 2018, with the last I could find being:
On Fri, 4 May 2018 11:30:13 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> Ping, Al, can you take a look?
What happened to it? Is there still any hope for this patch series?
Matthijs van Duin
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